The venous hum is heard throughout the cardiac cycle.

This condition is known as "venous hum", from which the group's name is derived.

On auscultation a venous hum may be heard.

While a venous hum may provoke consultation with a health care professional, it is entirely harmless.

Venous hum is a benign phenomenon.

Venous hum heard in epigastric region (on examination by stethoscope) because of collateral connections between portal system and the periumbilical veins in portal hypertension.

While the Hum is hypothesized by some to be a form of low frequency tinnitus such as the venous hum, some sufferers claim it is not internal, being worse inside their homes than outside.

Venous hum is the benign condition experienced by Lai Fun Kugelheim, the protagonist of the novel, in which one can hear the vibration, or hum, of one's own blood as it flows through his or her veins.

Pulsatile tinnitus is usually objective in nature, resulting from altered blood flow or increased blood turbulence near the ear (such as from atherosclerosis or venous hum,) but it can also arise as a subjective phenomenon from an increased awareness of blood flow in the ear.